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Source A few online resources for the next book on my list (many, alas, have fallen to web erosion over time and have been deleted). I listed a few general resources on James Joyce in this post A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man text at Project Gutenberg There are numerous audible versions […]
I started reading The Maias and quickly found myself lost during references to Portuguese history. I’m sure I will find more things I’m ignorant about, but for starters here are a few links that help make sense of the background events in the book: Portuguese history: Fourth Dynasty (1640 – 1910) at Wikipedia More detail […]
I decided I needed a break from the Modernism kick I’ve been on and decided to read The Maias by José Maria Eça de Queirós. I wanted to find some resources online to flesh out what little I know about the book and the author. Eça de Queirós Wikipedia entry The Maias was recently translated […]
There is a trove of resources about Joyce available online, yet most of them focus on Ulysses or Finnegans Wake. I’ve listed only a handful below: Texts available through Project Gutenberg Joyce’s Wikipedia entry Fordham University’s Joyce Studies Annual (formerly published by The University of Texas): The James Joyce Scholars’ Collection, through the University of […]
There is a lot of online resources available for Lawrence. There are only a few, but many of these links have additional resource links: Lawrence’s Wikipedia entry Lawrence’s online works from Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg of Australia The LibriVox recording of The Rainbow A book review of the biography DH Lawrence: The Life of […]
Some online resources for Ford Madox Ford: Wikipedia entry The Good Soldier at Project Gutenberg The Ford Madox Ford Society International Ford Madox Ford Studies, published by the Ford Madox Ford Society Agreg-ink’s site appears to have many useful links for online texts, bibliographies and other resources Julian Barnes’ essay for The Guardian: The Saddest […]
There is a lot available online about Joseph Conrad and his work. This doesn’t pretend to be a comprehensive list, but the links (to date) I’ve found helpful: Joseph Conrad’s Wikipedia entry. While I already knew some about him, his personal life is as interesting as his works. Conrad’s online texts at Project Gutenberg Free […]
Project Gutenberg e-texts Wikipedia entry on Kilping The New Readers’ Guide to the works of Rudyard Kipling (created by The Kipling Society) The Victorian Website page on Kipling Most of these sites have additional links and resources listed, as well as several links to Kipling’s works online. There is a wealth of material available! The […]
Fellow blogger Barry Barnitz is something of a Jane Austen buff. He supplied us with many of the links for this post. You may want to check out his Economic analysis of Jane Austen (link seems to be dead). Here are some other thoughts Barry has provided “off the top of his head”: “First, let […]